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dynarski.bsky.social
New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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colinpgreen.bsky.social
IWAEE News - Keynote line-up for 2026 (16th) Meetings:

Esteban Aucejo (U. Arizona), Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch (U Düsseldorf) and @marirege.bsky.social (U. Stavanger)

14th to 16th June 2026, Catanzaro Italy

Call for papers opens soon - deadline end February.

iwaee.org/new/

#EconSky
iwaee – IWAEE – Workshop internazionale sull'economia applicata dell'istruzione
iwaee.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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simonwiederhold.bsky.social
Join us!

@iwh-halle.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de are hiring an AP in Labor Economics!

Focus: Effects of AI and new technologies on workers & firms.

No German required.

Enjoy an outstanding research environment in Magdeburg & Halle – come see for yourself!

🔗 Full ad: tinyurl.com/28ko5wty
Assistant Professor (W1) in Labor Economics
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October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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lindseymacmillan.bsky.social
📖 New Working Paper

"Measuring systematic gaps in teacher judgement: A new approach"

😷 We use the Covid-19 induced cancellation of exams, where teachers assigned student grades & rankings within grade

econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

@opmc1.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social Rich Murphy
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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collinsmatthew.bsky.social
So happy to finally see my Job Market Paper published at the @j-humanresources.bsky.social ! 🙌
j-humanresources.bsky.social The JHR @j-humanresources.bsky.social · Sep 24
Culture shapes #FamilyInvestment choices.
@collinsmatthew.bsky.social found that having a brother reduces #Education for first-born boys by 0.05 SD in cultures where sons don’t inherit from their fathers. When sons can’t inherit, parents compensate with more education.
doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
Sibling Gender, Inheritance Customs and Educational Attainment Matthew Collins This study identifies the causal effect of second-born gender on the education of first-born children and how it varies across traditional inheritance customs in 27 sub-Saharan African countries. When customs dictate that sons do not inherit from fathers, having a brother causes a 0.05 SD reduction in education. For boys who inherit, having a brother reduces inheritance, for which parents substitute greater educational investments. For first-born girls whose brother can inherit, having a brother causes a 0.028 SD reduction in education. Exploiting national legal reforms, I show that sibling gender effects converge when all children can inherit from their parents.
September 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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woessmann.bsky.social
📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩

This will be so exciting!!!🥳

🔗https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-09-05/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2025

@raffasadun.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social …
September 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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voxeu.org
Excessive bureaucracy can frustrate workers. A German experiment shows that removing non-essential tasks led to increased sales, improved customer ratings, and made workers less likely to leave.
G Friebel, M Heinz, M Hoffman, @tkretschmer.bsky.social, N Zubanov
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Businesses use checklists to exercise managerial control and ensure quality, but excessive bureaucracy can frustrate skilled workers and reduce morale. This column presents a randomised control trial in a German bakery chain that removed two time-consuming, non-essential checklists in selected stores. After abolishing the checklists, sales rose by 2.7%, customer ratings improved, and qualified workers – especially store managers – were less likely to leave. The regional managers accurately predicted the outcomes, suggesting that empowering middle managers with discretion over control mechanisms could boost both performance and wellbeing.
September 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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colinpgreen.bsky.social
Conference Announcement: 16th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE - www.iwaee.org) will be held on the 15th and 16th of June, 2026.

More information, including call for papers, to follow
August 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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voxeu.org
Manuel Bagues & Natalia Zinovyeva find that #gender segregation in #education stems from gender segregation in childhood activities and friendships, which are shaped by family income and parenting styles.
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Graph of the gender equality paradox in higher education. The most economically prosperous and gender-equal societies often display stronger gender segregation in educational choices – a pattern known as the ‘gender equality paradox’. This column explores this paradox using data on half a million children in 37 Western countries and 10,000 British families over two decades. The findings suggest that gender segregation in education stems from gender segregation in childhood activities and friendships, which are shaped by family income and parenting styles. Policymakers may need to move beyond promoting formal equality and focus on family, community, and school interventions that encourage mixed-gender interactions.
August 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
My latest "Professor Is In" explainer with @anacabrera.bsky.social was designed almost too perfectly for the present moment: Who uses economic data? Why does the government collect it, why must it be imperfect, and how does political interference undermine it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSbn...
Economic data. Where does it come from, what do we do with it, and why must politics stay out of it?
YouTube video by Justin Wolfers
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August 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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woessmann.bsky.social
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?

➡️ New Working Paper:

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek

www.nber.org/papers/w33984

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July 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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lindseymacmillan.bsky.social
🎙️NEW FINDINGS🎙️

Updated analysis from our @nuffieldfoundation.org funded work on shows that inequalities by socio-economic background have *increased* over time for the latest year of recruitment as competition for graduate jobs have increased

repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo...
June 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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jonasjessen.bsky.social
A lot of attention is rightfully on gender inequalities in the labour market and, to a lesser degree, on inequalities in unpaid work ⚖️

But men falling behind in education and the lack of debate around this is also a big societal problem. Great paper 👇
June 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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woessmann.bsky.social
📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social):

👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries

Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience

academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

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June 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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annaliesep.bsky.social
Looks like intensive advising may b e more cost-effective than financial aid. Turns out guiding students through complex college choices might be more effective than giving them money and setting 18 year olds loose on the world to make consequential decisions: www.nber.org/papers/w3392...
June 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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jopieboy.bsky.social
🧵Replication: Can refugee flows be lowered by reducing welfare? Agersnap et al. (2020, AER:I) study this in Denmark, reporting lower benefits strongly reduce migration flows. I reanalyze this paper, finding a much more nuanced result.
June 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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henninghermes.com
Over the moon to see our paper on "Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment" out in the June 2025 issue of @jeeanews.bsky.social today! 🤩🥳🥳🥳

What a journey – huge thanks to @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🙂
June 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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cesifo.org
𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, oganized by 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝗵𝗹 is ending. 👏to @jopieboy.bsky.social on winning the Affiliate Award. Great presentations by @ursina.bsky.social @aadukia.bsky.social, @martinauccioli.bsky.social. 🙏 A special thanks to 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗔𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿 for her keynote and to all presenters!
May 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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hhsievertsen.bsky.social
In a new WP, Andrew C. Johnston and coauthors study what happens around divorce in US families.

First, they move apart (mean: 100 miles!!)
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#econsky
May 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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stnavdeev.com
Honored to have received the Best Paper Award at the CESifo / ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 2025.

I'm incredibly grateful to my advisors, @hesseloosterbeek.bsky.social and @basvdklaauw.bsky.social, and the many brilliant people I've been lucky to learn from along the way.
cesifo.org CESifo @cesifo.org · May 15
We've wrapped up the 2025 #CESifo/𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
🙏Thank you to @alexeble.bsky.social and Alexander Willen for their inspiring keynotes!
👏to @stnavdeev.com for winning the Best Paper Award for 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘰𝘵: 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘌𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
May 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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woessmann.bsky.social
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"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"

w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon

🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...

🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!

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May 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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kinnelavinia.bsky.social
Really cool paper and a fantastic outcome for a single-authored project, congrats! 🥳
April 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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aaronedgeart.bsky.social
The Charing Cross Underground station murals by David Gentleman are wondrous.
#Art #Artist #Mural #Subway
April 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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awiedemann.bsky.social
Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
GERDA: The German Election Database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - GERDA: The German Election Database
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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jonmladd.bsky.social
In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.
April 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM